{"product_id":"poetic-illumination-rene-char-and-his-artist-allies-9789042032071","title":"Poetic Illumination: René Char and his Artist Allies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1980 an exhibition of the Illuminated Manuscripts of René Char held in Paris took the artistic and literary worlds by surprise. It featured illustrations by twenty-eight artists of an array of Char’s hand-written poems. Char’s artistic associations, spanning seven decades, remain remarkable today. Not only was he amply illustrated by those he called his “substantial allies”; the dedicatory poems and prose pieces they inspired, written with revelatory flair, constitute a unique corpus in the history of art and poetic enterprise. This book brings together an exemplary number of the artists Char prized over time: Dali and Kandinsky in the early years; later, Picasso, Braque and Miró; yet later, Vieira da Silva, Nicolas de Staël and Alexandre Galperine. It also considers the poet’s fascination with Corot, Courbet, La Tour, Van Gogh and the cave art of Lascaux.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements Titles of Collections René Char: 1907-1988 Introduction Surrealism and Beyond: Kandinsky, Dali, Corot, Courbet Picasso Reviewed: From Fact to Myth New Horizons: “Presenting Georges Braque” The Fantastic Realism of Joan Miró Georges de La Tour: Artist of Light and Shade The Magic of Lascaux Nicolas de Staël: Seeker of Summits, Child of the Pole Star Vieira da Silva: A Web of Connections The Last Collections: Vincent Van Gogh and Alexandre Galperine Epilogue: The Illumination of the Poet Dramatis Personæ Selective Bibliography Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210910064983,"sku":"9789042032071","price":83.92,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/poetic-illumination-rene-char-and-his-artist-allies-9789042032071","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}